We understand the work as a seemingly banal architectural device of little complexity, but of interest in its possibility and uses.
我们将该项目理解为一个看似平凡的建筑设备，它带有一点复杂性，但是在其使用的可能性上又带有一些趣味性。
Nonetheless, his testimony – with its credibly banal account of life on board the Arctic Sea – blows a hole in the official version of events.
然而，他的陈述——详实可靠地描述了“北冰洋”号船上的普通生活——却给官方的版本捅了娄子。
But something unexpected occurred. Once people started imagining the future, even the most banal life events seemed to take a dramatic turn for the better.
没想到的事发生了：一旦人们开始想像未来，甚至最平凡的生活事件都似乎向好的方向发生戏剧性的改变。
The level is mundane, and even the voiceovers, which reproduce the conversations of the plane's crew, are banal; war is boring, and most importantly not on the ground, but mediated through a screen.
等级很一般，甚至连画外音都是再现那些全体机组人员老一套的谈话。战争很无聊，最重要的是不是在地面上，但是却在一个屏幕上展现出来了。
Those familiar only with the banal 20th-century examples made for the tourist trade are in for a happy surprise.
那些对20世纪事件很熟悉的人来说，这些玩意仅仅是旅行者商贸上的快乐惊喜。
It's a banal example, but a good one I think about to remind myself that even if I lose my most precious teddy bear in the world, it's just a thing.
这个例子是老生常谈了，但是它总能恰如其分地提醒我，甚至在我把我视若稀世珍宝的泰迪熊丢了的时候，我还能淡定地对自己说，这其实就是一件东西罢了。
A banal landscape of ugly new towers flanks both sides.
马路两遍的是平凡丑陋的新摩天大楼的景象。
The problem, of course, is that the modern marketplace is a conspiracy to confuse, to trick the mind into believing that our most banal choices are actually extremely significant.
最主要的原因当然是现代商业中充满了令人迷惑的阴谋，它想让人相信，平凡的决定中暗藏着深远意义。
The truth, the scientist admitted in the text of the article, is more banal: raising livestock produces greenhouse gases; and a vegetarian diet is better for the climate.
文章中，这个科学家承认说，其实事实比较老调了：家畜饲养会产生温室气体；素食对气候更有益。
But despite some lapses into trendy jargon, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), a 144-page encyclical issued by Pope Benedict XVI on July 7th, is certainly not a banal or trivial document.
尽管有些流于时髦行话的纰漏，这份由教皇本笃十六世于7月7日发表的144页的教皇通谕《真理中的善行》，显然不是平庸或无关轻重之作。
Like other industrialists, Kreuger planned to amass a huge fortune by manufacturing something ubiquitous and banal, much as John D. Rockefeller had done with kerosene.
就像其他实业家一样，克鲁格打算通过生产普通日用产品来聚集大量的财富，这一点和约翰·d·洛克·菲勒生产煤油的目的类似。
The film could then be embedded into otherwise banal correspondence as punctuation at the end of a sentence.
胶片会被做成句子末尾的标点，植入再普通不过的书信中。
It sounds almost banal to say, [but] it's a really big world out there, and the United States has responsibilities practically everywhere.
听起来像是陈词滥调，[但]这世界实在太大了，而美国的职责几乎无处不在。
When the question comes from the woolliest corners of the Chinese Web, as it often does, it is framed as an accusation, and a banal one at that.
在中国互联网的犄角旮旯经常会看到这种老掉牙的质问，往往都是用来骂人。
And while the first part certainly makes for eye-catching photography - Instagram's filters seem to give the most banal shots a new depth and mood - the latter two shouldn't be discounted.
而且当拍摄照片的第一步是由眼睛完成时，Instagram的滤镜正好为平凡无奇的拍摄提供的一个新的深度和气氛，这两点是拍摄中所不能忽略的。
Mr Murakami intersperses these with a laconic sort of philosophizing, much of it equally banal: “I think I’ve been able to run for 20 years for a simple reason: it suits me.”
在其中，村上春树先生穿插了一些简短的哲学式的随想，很多看起来相当平常，比如“我想，这20年能够坚持跑下来，只是因为我适合这项运动。
FOR a life so extraordinary the manner of Michael Jackson’s passing on Thursday June 25th was utterly banal: a middle-aged man succumbing to an apparent heart-attack.
生命璀璨绚丽如迈克•杰克逊者，在6月25日星期四的过世竟如此苍白平淡：一中年男人心脏病突发去世。
I know it sounds banal, but it makes a huge difference.
我知道这听起来有点陈腐，但它使一个巨大的差别。
When you explain poetry, it becomes banal. Better than any explanation is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal to a nature open enough to understand it.
当你解释诗歌的时候，它就变得很平庸。用经验去感觉诗歌要比任何的解释都好，这样才能发现足够自然地去理解它。
Whether it's the news on TV, an object in the street or a banal landscape - which was taken for granted, now reveals its inherent ambivalence or hidden narrative.
不论是电视新闻、街道上的物体或者是普通的风景，这些被人们想当然的材料，开始呈现它们内部的多重性和隐藏的叙事。
With a bit of whiplash, she finds herself thrust into a banal "French farce", assuming a role she had never imagined for herself.
经受了一些刺激后，她发现自己陷入了一个老套的“法式闹剧”之中，为自己设定了一个她从未想象过的角色。
But how do these other worldly qualities emerge from the banal subject of a bowl of flowers?
这不过是一瓶平凡无奇的花，为什么会显得如此超凡脱俗？
You can achieve this through a structured review system, but such systems often become banal formalities with little or no communication.
你可以通过评价系统达到这个目的，但这样的评价系统通常会沦为陈腐的例行公事而降低或阻隔你与员工之间的沟通。
Platitude: a trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant.
陈腔滥调，陈腐的或平庸的评论或陈述，尤指某人表述它时好像它是新颖的或有意义的。
A never banal romanism that can easily be read in the materials such as Travertine flooring, grit from the 30's and the intense tavern Ian feeling mimed by the furniture.
拒绝平庸的罗马风格可以很容易地材料中显现出来，如石灰华地板、30年代的沙砾以及家具中传递出的强烈的希腊酒馆的感觉。
This is a small "town", which is now beginning to prevail in this community behind banal billboards.
这是一个小小“城市”，现在它开始在社区里平庸的广告牌后流行开来。
Most laughter was in fact either triggered by a banal comment or used to punctuate everyday speech.
实际上，大多数笑要么是因为一些陈芝麻烂谷子的论调，或者要么是为了润色一下日常的谈话。
Most laughter was in fact either triggered by a banal comment or used to punctuate everyday speech.
实际上，大多数笑要么是因为一些陈芝麻烂谷子的论调，或者要么是为了润色一下日常的谈话。
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